503 NNTP server unavailable.

[Katsuhiro Kondou]

In article <0v4sa1imn6.fsf at cs.uni-magdeburg.de>,
	Roland Jesse <jesse at prinz-atm.CS.Uni-Magdeburg.De> wrote;

} I did not modify syslog.conf as configure sayed: "checking log
} facility for news... LOG_NEWS" and INSTALL tells us that inn will use
} the `news' syslog facility in case it is available. (It is a Solaris
} 2.6 machine, btw.)

But you need to have relevant entries in syslog.conf
like this;

news.crit	/var/news/log/news.crit
news.err	/var/news/log/news.err
news.notice	/var/news/log/news.notice

} Hhm, hhm, according to its zero file length, the file's syntax seems
} to be ok. But in case I am not seeing it, here is the contents of my
} readers.conf (comments removed):

I don't know where is the problem at a glance.  You
need to setup syslog correctly to know how innd/nnrpd
works.
-- 
Katsuhiro Kondou